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The narrative follows a caravan route from Red Sea ports inland across coastal plains, salt lakes, and elevated tablelands toward the kingdom of Shoa. It combines practical travel journal entries with geological and hydrological observations, notably on the Hawash basin and local watersheds. Encounters with diverse tribal groups provide detailed descriptions of customs, justice, commerce, slavery, and periodic raids that shape movement and security. Natural-history remarks, accounts of camp life and negotiations with local leaders appear alongside reflections on language, orthography, and the hardships of long-distance travel in a little-charted region.

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Title: Travels in southern Abyssinia, Volume 1 (of 2)

through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa

Author: Charles Johnston

Release date: November 17, 2023 [eBook #72155]

Language: English

Original publication: London: J. Madden and Co, 1844

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN ABYSSINIA, VOLUME 1 (OF 2) ***

C. Johnston dd. T. & E. Gilks, Lithrs.
MULKUKUYU FORD OVER THE HAWASH.


TRAVELS
 
IN
 
SOUTHERN ABYSSINIA,

THROUGH
THE COUNTRY OF ADAL
TO
THE KINGDOM OF SHOA.
BY
CHARLES JOHNSTON, M.R.C.S.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
J. MADDEN AND CO., LEADENHALL STREET.
M DCCC XLIV.

MACINTOSH, PRINTER,
GREAT NEW STREET, LONDON.

TO
MR. THOMAS JOHNSTON, OF BIRMINGHAM,
THESE VOLUMES
ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED,
BY HIS SON.